[cctalk] Re: Excellent CHM Article on Apple Lisa Software (Apple Archive)

2023-01-27 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Thu, 26 Jan 2023, skogkatt...@yahoo.com wrote: Companies don't care about history.  It does not affect the next quarter's sales. I had serial number 1 of a Radio Shack shortwave receiver and offered it to them. I got a reply back, 'I'm sorry, we no longer support that model.' cheers, Nigel

[cctalk] Re: Excellent CHM Article on Apple Lisa Software (Apple Archive)

2023-01-26 Thread Ethan O'Toole via cctalk
Companies don't care about history.  It does not affect the next quarter's sales. I had serial number 1 of a Radio Shack shortwave receiver and offered it to them. A CEO I know of a company who's products I use has commented that he is always thinking forward, doesn't dwell in the past. Otherwi

[cctalk] Re: Excellent CHM Article on Apple Lisa Software (Apple Archive)

2023-01-26 Thread Chris via cctalk
Companies don't care about history.  It does not affect the next quarter's sales. I had serial number 1 of a Radio Shack shortwave receiver and offered it to them. I got a reply back, 'I'm sorry, we no longer support that model.' cheers, Nigel C: wow I didn't even know the Shirt Shack monitored

[cctalk] Re: Excellent CHM Article on Apple Lisa Software (Apple Archive)

2023-01-26 Thread Tarek Hoteit via cctalk
I think companies treat their product as inventory items. Companies are not even meant to last forever, whereas the expectations of museums is that they should. Moreover, the excitement of acquiring a product with serial number 1 is coming from us, the consumers. You expected the Radio Shack per

[cctalk] Re: Excellent CHM Article on Apple Lisa Software (Apple Archive)

2023-01-26 Thread Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk
Companies don't care about history.  It does not affect the next quarter's sales. I had serial number 1 of a Radio Shack shortwave receiver and offered it to them. I got a reply back, 'I'm sorry, we no longer support that model.' cheers, Nigel Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/V

[cctalk] Re: Excellent CHM Article on Apple Lisa Software (Apple Archive)

2023-01-25 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
Thank you for that link. As usual, the Vogons get credit for something that was accomplished in spite of the Vogons. At one time, Apple had a historical exhibit. It ended with the Macintosh, with NO provision for any future expansion. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com

[cctalk] Re: Excellent CHM Article on Apple Lisa Software (Apple Archive)

2023-01-25 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jan 25, 2023, at 8:03 PM, Tarek Hoteit via cctalk > wrote: > > Though it is not a source code, there is a nice article by a retired > librarian that used to work at Apple. Anna Mancini helped save a lot of > material that Apple discarded in the past. Anna talks about the Apple > Archi

[cctalk] Re: Excellent CHM Article on Apple Lisa Software (Apple Archive)

2023-01-25 Thread Tarek Hoteit via cctalk
Though it is not a source code, there is a nice article by a retired librarian that used to work at Apple. Anna Mancini helped save a lot of material that Apple discarded in the past. Anna talks about the Apple Archives at https://annamancini.substack.com/p/how-the-apple-archive-ended-up-at Reg